The local community is "shocked and devastated" following the crash in south Dublin yesterday in which six teenagers and a woman in her 40s were injured.

Trade unions and Government representatives will continue engagement today with an independent group in a bid to find a pathway to talks on the ongoing pay dispute.

The Tánaiste Simon Harris has urged unions to engage "in good faith" with what the Government describes as a substantially improved public sector pay offer, which is understood to provide pay increases of 10.5%.

UN chief Antonio Guterres has urged world leaders to "get serious" about tackling climate change as the COP31 conference opened with negotiators already tangled in an early fight over money.

British comedian and actor Russell Brand will be sentenced for raping a young woman and sexually assaulting three other women.